2000 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Newly formed bands

• 5ive
• A Perfect Murder
• Adagio
• Adema
• Alcest
• Alove for Enemies
• Angelus Apatrida
• Animosity
• The Answer
• Antigama
• Apostasy
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• Between the Buried and Me
• Beyond the Embrace
• Blinded Colony (as Stigmata)
• Bucovina
• Byzantine
• Cannae
• Car Bomb
• Circus Maximus
• Crashdïet
• The Darkness
• Deadsoul Tribe
• Deathstars
• Debauchery
• Demon Hunter
• Desperados
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Forever Slave
• From Autumn to Ashes
• Full Blown Chaos
• Hammers of Misfortune
• Hatesphere
• Hurt
• Indukti
• Kiuas
• Last Tribe
• Machinae Supremacy
• Majesty
• Mar de Grises
• Mastodon
• Mgła
• Mirrorthrone
• Mystic Prophecy
• Nachtmystium
• Nightrage
• The Ocean
• Ondskapt
• Otep
• Pagan's Mind
• Pantheist
• Peste Noire
• Place of Skulls
• Planet X
• Poisonblack
• Shaaman
• Seventh Wonder
• Steel Panther
• Swallow the Sun
• Sylosis
• Thunderstone
• Ulcerate
• Ünloco
• The Vision Bleak
• Visions of Atlantis
• Warmen
• Witchcraft

Reformed bands

• Britny Fox
• Living Colour

Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
11	Chimaira	This Present Darkness (EP)
	Kittie	Spit
17	Sentenced	Crimson
18	Cro-Mags	Revenge
25	Primer 55	Introduction to Mayhem
31	Macabre	Dahmer
	Therion	Deggial

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Skillet	Invincible
7	Gorgoroth	Incipit Satan
	Melvins	The Crybaby
8	Bloodbath	Breeding Death (EP)
	Demons & Wizards	Demons & Wizards
	Soilwork	The Chainheart Machine
21	Misanthrope	Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation)
28	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip
	Stratovarius	Infinite
29	Rollins Band	Get Some -> Go Again

March

Day	Artist	Album
6	Entombed	Uprising
7	Alabama Thunderpussy	Constellation
	Armored Saint	Revelation
	Disturbed	The Sickness
	High on Fire	The Art of Self Defense
	Transport League	Satanic Panic
13	Old Man's Child	Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation
14	Poison	Crack a Smile... and More!
20	Vader	Litany
21	Dio	Magica
	Morgana Lefay	S.O.S
27	Immortal	Damned in Black
	Pantera	Reinventing the Steel
	Seven Witches	City of Lost Souls

April

Day	Artist	Album
3	Isis	Celestial
4	Shadows Fall	Of One Blood
8	Heaven Shall Burn	Asunder
10	One Minute Silence	Buy Now... Saved Later
	The Hives	Veni Vidi Vicious
17	Borknagar	Quintessence
	Decapitated	Winds of Creation
	QueenAdreena	Taxidermy
18	Black Label Society	Stronger than Death
	Nasum	Human 2.0
	The Chasm	Procession to the Infraworld
24	After Forever	Prison of Desire
25	Boysetsfire	After the Eulogy
	Destruction	All Hell Breaks Loose
	Papa Roach	Infest
	Racer X	Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions)
	Saxon	Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)

May

Day	Artist	Album
8	Nightwish	Wishmaster
9	Glassjaw	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
	Incantation	The Infernal Storm
	Jag Panzer	Thane to the Throne
13	Trail of Tears	Profoundemonium
15	Motörhead	We Are Motörhead
16	Orange Goblin	The Big Black
22	Blaze Bayley	Silicon Messiah
	Raised Fist	Ignoring the Guidelines
23	A Perfect Circle	Mer de Noms
	King's X	Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
	Pitchshifter	Deviant
29	Iron Maiden	Brave New World
30	Ska-P	Planeta Eskoria

June

Day	Artist	Album
6	Alice Cooper	Brutal Planet
8	Cave In	Jupiter
13	Poison	Power to the People
20	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
	Deftones	White Pony
	King Diamond	House of God
	Madball	Hold It Down
	The Sins of Thy Beloved	Perpetual Desolation
21	Stratovarius	14 Diamonds (compilation)
25	Edguy	The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
26	Devin Townsend	Physicist (album)
	Metalium	State of Triumph – Chapter Two
27	Deicide	Insineratehymn
30	The Haunted	Made Me Do It

July

Day	Artist	Album
3	In Flames	Clayman
4	Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage
	Pig Destroyer	Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
	Underoath	Cries of the Past
7	Dark Tranquillity	Haven
11	Mötley Crüe	New Tattoo
	Origin	Origin
25	Fates Warning	Disconnected
	Sinergy	To Hell and Back
26	Rob Rock	Rage of Creation

August

Day	Artist	Album
8	Halford	Resurrection
	Scorpions	Moment of Glory (compilation)
17	Pro-Pain	Round 6
22	Mudvayne	L.D. 50
28	Rotting Christ	Khronos
29	Paul Di'Anno	Nomad
	Shuvel	Set It Off

September

Day	Artist	Album
5	Nile	Black Seeds of Vengeance
	Nothingface	Violence
12	At the Drive-In	Relationship of Command
	Type O Negative	After Dark (live)
15	Suicidal Tendencies	Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
19	Cannibal Corpse	Live Cannibalism (live)
25	Electric Wizard	Dopethrone[1]
26	Lamb of God	New American Gospel
	Soulfly	Primitive

October

Day	Artist	Album
2	Apocalyptica	Cult
	Theatre of Tragedy	Musique
3	Dying Fetus	Destroy the Opposition
	Enslaved	Mardraum – Beyond the Within
9	HammerFall	Renegade
10	Slash's Snakepit	Ain't Life Grand
	Symphony X	V: The New Mythology Suite
16	Virgin Steele	The House of Atreus Act II
17	100 Demons	In the Eyes of the Lord
	Downset.	Check Your People
	Limp Bizkit	Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
	Morbid Angel	Gateways to Annihilation
	Nevermore	Dead Heart in a Dead World
18	Tad Morose	Undead
24	Linkin Park	Hybrid Theory
	Misanthrope	Misanthrope Immortel
	Overkill	Bloodletting
30	Children of Bodom	Follow the Reaper
	Cradle of Filth	Midian
	Helloween	The Dark Ride
	Rhapsody	Dawn of Victory
31	Godsmack	Awake
	Pain of Salvation	The Perfect Element, Part I

November

Day	Artist	Album
7	Immolation	Close to a World Below
	Yngwie Malmsteen	War to End All Wars
11	Marilyn Manson	Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
12	Monster Magnet	God Says No
27	Behemoth	Thelema.6
	Rob Rock	Rage of Creation (Non-Japanese releases)

December

Day	Artist	Album
5	Alice in Chains	Live
	Godflesh	Messiah (EP)
	Rage Against the Machine	Renegades
11	Crystal Eyes	In Silence They March
12	Abdullah	Abdullah
	Ayreon	Ayreonauts Only (compilation)
	Melt-Banana	Teeny Shiny
14	Walls of Jericho	The Bound Feed the Gagged
15	Boris	Flood
17	Gargoyle	Future Drug
21	Svartsyn	...His Majesty
24	Onmyo-Za	百鬼繚乱
	Within Temptation	Mother Earth

Albums with unknown release dates

Month	Artist	Album
Unknown	No-Big-Silence	Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
	Pig Destroyer	7" Picture Disc (EP)
	Static-X	The Death Trip Continues (EP)
	Weakling	Dead as Dreams

Singles (WIP)

January

Day	Artist	Single
11	Kittie	Brackish
21	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip

February

Day	Artist	Single
11	AC/DC	Safe in New York City

April

Day	Artist	Single
29	Disturbed	Stupify

June

Day	Artist	Single
2	Metallica	I Disappear
5	Kittie	Charlotte

August

Day	Artist	Single
29	Linkin Park	One Step Closer

September

Day	Artist	Single
18	Melvins	Spit It Out

October

Day	Artist	Single
29	Disturbed	Down with the Sickness

November

Day	Artist	Single
29	Disturbed	Voices

Singles with unknown release dates

Month	Artist	Single
January	Poison	Shut Up, Make Love
February	Poison	Be the One
Unknown	Primer 55	Appetite for Destruction
		Loose
		Set It Off
	Rollins Band	Get Some Go Again
		Illumination
	Skillet	Best Kept Secret
		Come On to the Future
		Invincible
		Rest
		Shout to the Lord
		The One
		You Take My Rights Away
		You're Powerful
		Your Name Is Holy
	Stratovarius	A Million Light Years Away / Celestial Dream
		Hunting High and Low / Millennium

Disbandments

• Brougham
• Osvajači (reformed in 2005)
• Rage Against the Machine
• Sacred Reich (reformed in 2006)

Events

• Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
• Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy.
• Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
• Mr. Bungle play their final concert.

Deaths

• September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.^[2]